Who is this article for?

Administrators or data scientists who want to learn to connect PleaseReport using Postman.

Access keys for PleaseReport are required.

PleaseReport has been designed to surface the data on reviews and related information manner to aid reporting and analysis.

This article outlines the steps required to connect to PleaseReport using Postman. Postman is an API tool that will allow you to make API calls within Galileo. Postman does not allow you to perform any analysis but can be used to access the data in a JSON format which you can then use in other analytic tools.

This does not provide details on specific steps on how to use the JSON data and instead focuses on how to access the data.

1. Install Postman
2. Connect Using Postman
3. Querying Specific Tables

Before you proceed, please ensure you have your PleaseReport Endpoint URL and the Access Keys. For details on how to request these please visit How to Request PleaseReport Access.

1. Install Postman

If you don't already have Postman installed, then it can be downloaded for free from Postman.com.

1. Browse to the Postman app of the Postman website.
2. Download and install the app.

More Assistance: For more assistance in installing Postman please visit the Postman Docs.

2. Connect Using Postman

With Postman installed and your keys on hand you are ready to connect to PleaseReport.

To connect:

1. Open Postman.
2. Open a new connection tab.
3. Enter the URL for your Galileo tenant.
4. Click on the Authorization tab.
5. Update the Key field as X-IdeagenDataAPIKey.
6. Update the Value field with the key supplied to you by Ideagen.
7. Update the Add To field to Header.

4. Click Send.

If your connection has been successful, you will then see a list of all tables available in PleaseReport in the Body section.

3. Querying Specific Tables

To query specific tables:

1. Confirm you can connect to PleaseReport via the above steps.
2. Update your GET request with the name of the table you want to query.
3. Click Send.